Consider an arm that has 'fallen asleep' or placed under local anesthetic. It feels foreign, but you take care of it still as if it were your own. One has to

Consider an arm that has 'fallen asleep' or placed under local anesthetic. It feels foreign, but you take care of it still as if it were your own. One has to simply extend their idea of themselves outside of what their neurons are directly touching to see the linkage between another human and themselves. Here is a case where two people are brought in more direct contact, which seems to me to hold the door open for future possibilities. It makes it easier to see how two might merge, at least in a rough accidental sort of way. https://kottke.org/17/11/these-conjoined-twins-can-share-each-others-thoughts-vision https://kottke.org/17/11/these-conjoined-twins-can-share-eac... https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-twins-share-a-mind.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-... Have a good one.